A measurement for how important something is for something.
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Tobacco use among adolescents is a global problem of public health importance.
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Thus, mild hypertension clearly constitutes a public health problem of considerable importance.
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Risk management measures linked to these contacts are therefore of key importance.
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Mbeki said South Africa attaches great importance to its cooperation with China.
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The importance of the sector to the economy is quite simply enormous.
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Each year World Social Work Day takes on new energy and significance.
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Photographs, especially missing ones, held a particular significance for her right now.
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There is a crisis of political significance before the AAP, he said.
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I thought maybe there was some special significance to this particular paper.
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Yet Axl could sense that these new positions had a different significance.
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Could Altamont's idea have relevance to the present chaotic situation in Ireland?
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Republican strategist Hogan Gidley said the violence gave relevance to Trump's message.
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However, the clinical relevance of this approach has yet to be defined.
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The fact that a programme changes is of absolutely no relevance whatsoever.
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These decreases, however, lacked clinical relevance; all parameters were within normal range.
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With austerity forcing many into poverty, this tale has a particular pertinence.
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We must end this line of inquiry, unless it has immediate pertinence.
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It was an abrupt question, with no apparent pertinence, but I understood.
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Black Lives Matter activist Johnetta Elzie questioned the pertinence of that information.
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There is integrity to design, consistence and pertinence, and there are aesthetic qualities.
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As I soon came to know, it was the latter-which ,insuch a woman, increased the remarkableness.